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01/18/2017 07:00 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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You're in The Roadhouse, for a special MLK & The Songs of Freedom, in the middle of KEXP's Give Peace a Chance Week: http://blog.kexp.org/bed-in/ |
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01/18/2017 06:54 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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NPR interview with the majestic musician and activist Odetta in 2005: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5074594 |
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01/18/2017 06:51 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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A piece from 2015 about this song and persistent issues with criminal justice: https://shadowproof.com/2015/08/17/protest-song-of-the-week-alabama-blues/ |
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01/18/2017 06:48 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Sweet video live in Hamburg in 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU9LKA83Yc ; on Miss Simone's life and activism: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/nina-simone-and-mississippi-goddam/396923/ |
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01/18/2017 06:47 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html ; video of his acceptance speech: http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1853 |
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01/18/2017 06:45 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Live video from Montreux in 1981: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFBHOtN5ssc |
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01/18/2017 06:43 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Group came out of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): http://www.blackpast.org/aah/sncc-freedom-singers-1962-1966 ; This song live, as part of a PBS teaching kit: http://ket.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ket-protest-music/freedom-singers-music-arts-toolkit/ |
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01/18/2017 06:39 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Recorded in 1964 in Atlanta, GA ; http://www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/ce_alanlomax_profile_mable_hillery.php ; live video of "How Long That Train Been Gone":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcaAcTBcyaU |
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01/18/2017 06:36 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Lovely live video of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vmlg37dto |
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01/18/2017 06:29 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Info, quotes, and song listings from the Freedom Movement and its Freedom Songs: http://www.crmvet.org/info/fsongs.htm |
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01/18/2017 06:27 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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This song live at Montreux in 1976: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x150qej_nina-simone-backlash-blues_music ; http://www.ninasimone.com/ |
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01/18/2017 06:22 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Live 2010 video of her song "Woman of the Ghetto" (which was on her 1969 album Spice of Life): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRUjUwz_Dw&t=0s ; http://www.berkeleyagency.com/blues/marlena-shaw.htm |
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01/18/2017 06:20 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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More about Curtis Mayfield and his songs for civil rights: http://www.curtismayfield.com/civil-rights.html |
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01/18/2017 06:18 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Take the time to hear full audio of MLK's last speech before he was assassinated, known as "I Have Been to the Mountaintop," 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDl84vusXos&feature=share |
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01/18/2017 06:15 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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The last album Billy Sherrill would produce with the legendary gospel family ; 2014 interview with Mavis about her family and the civil rights movement: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/12/302166519/mavis-staples-still-singing-the-civil-rights-soundtrack |
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01/18/2017 06:10 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Mavis Staples talks about MLK, including first meeting him in 1961: http://northbynorthwestern.com/story/mavis-staples-reflects-on-martin-luther-king-jr/ ; http://mavisstaples.com |
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01/18/2017 06:10 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Recorded live at a festival in West Virginia in 1985 ; download full liner notes from the Folkways site: http://www.folkways.si.edu/sing-for-freedom-the-story-of-the-civil-rights-movement/african-american-music-american-history-historical-song-struggle-protest/album/smithsonian |
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01/18/2017 06:05 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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Live in 1976 ; The Impressions doing this song (written by Curtis Mayfield) live at the Martin Luther King Memorial Dedication Concert in Washington DC in 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F36ow18Ts6A |
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01/18/2017 06:00 PM DJ: Greg Vandy |
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You're in The Roadhouse, for our annual edition of MLK & Songs of Freedom ; we'll hear a soundtrack to the civil rights movement, and the words of Dr. King himself |
